Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia explores the intersection of migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national or trans/cultural partnerships, families and/or love-friendships. Woven into these narratives are explorations of the roles that religious identities, values, and world views play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities. These essays explore assumptions of hetero-normativities, gender role expectations, sexual identities, body configurations, and political practices utilized by individuals and group agency. Rather than considering 'queer migrants' as a homogeneous population, this book hopes to expose the diversity of power relationalities, ideological or praxis divergences, and sexual particularities that contour the shape of 21st century migrant lives.

Hugo Córdova Quero and Rafael Shoji, eds. 2014. Transnational Faiths: Latin American Immigrants and Their Religions in Japan. Farnham: Ashgate.This book focuses on the role that faith and religious institutions play in the migrants' process of settlement and integration. The authors also focus on the impact of immigrants' religiosity amidst religious groups formerly established in Japan. Religion is an integral aspect of the displacement and settlement process of immigrants in an increasing multi-ethnic, multicultural and pluri-religious contemporary Japan. Religious institutions and their social networks in Japan are becoming the first point of contact among immigrants. This book exposes and explores the often missed connection of the positive role of religion and faith-based communities in facilitating varied integrative ways of belonging for immigrants. The authors highlight the faith experiences of immigrants themselves by bringing their voices through case studies, interviews, and ethnographic research throughout the book in order to offer an important contribution to the exploration of multiculturalism in Japan.

Upon the reform of the migration law in 1990, thousands of Latin American migrants, especially Brazilian, settled in Japan. The focus of attention within the Japanese society arose partly due to the fact that, in a short time, people with a cultural background other than Japanese or Asian, became "foreign inhabitants" in a way that has not been experienced in Japan until that time. The increase of the number of foreigners reached a crucial point, thus manifesting the until then latent problems in many different situations within the Japanese society. The new experiences and problems of Japanese society in contact with foreigners who culturally differ from Japanese daily lifestyle has been approached by many researches. Simultaneously, their research has offered solutions to those problems for the past 20 years.